Michael J. Bustamante

Michael J. Bustamante is associate professor of history and the Emilio Bacardí Moreau Chair in Cuban and Cuban-American Studies at the University of Miami. He is the author of Cuban Memory Wars: Retrospective Politics in Revolution and Exile, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2021. With Jennifer Lambe, he is coeditor of The Revolution from Within: Cuba, 1959–1980, published by Duke University Press in 2019. Bustamante also serves as director of Academic Programs at the Cuban Heritage Collection at UM, the largest archival repository dedicated to Cuban materials outside of the island and the largest collection of materials on the Cuban diaspora in the world. He also directs the undergraduate program in Cuban Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences and its affiliated academic minor. His scholarly writing has appeared or is forthcoming in such publications as Journal of American Ethnic History, Latino Studies, Cuban Studies, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Anthurium, and Cold War History.